This week, Corbyn, next week – Vox Political’s Mike. But will Labour admit its ‘anti-Semitism’ blunders?
Has the Labour Party followed its own rules for investigating the complaint against Jeremy Corbyn?
After any party member is accused, they have to be given warning of the claim against them, with questions to answer in order to give their side, and two weeks to answer them.
Then the party has to investigate the validity of the complaint – a matter that can take several months.
Then the issue goes before a panel from the National Executive Committee.
As far as we know, Jeremy Corbyn still doesn’t know the accusation against him. How could he? Keir Starmer hasn’t been able to get it right in any of the many interviews about it in the two weeks and five days since it happened.
Starmer keeps saying silly things, such as that Corbyn had said anti-Semitism had been exaggerated. He didn’t; he said the extent of A/S in the Labour Party had been exaggerated by certain people for political reasons.
Starmer’s insistence on exaggerating what Corbyn did would suggest that he is one such person. Wouldn’t it?
I’ve already touched on the next point: nowhere near enough time has passed for a proper investigation, according to Labour’s rules, to be carried out.
So it seems any discussion by any NEC members today (November 17) can only take the form of a “show trial”. If he loses his party membership as a result, the party will be accused of holding a kangaroo court.
Mention of kangaroo courts brings This Writer to my own mistreatment by Labour and the fact that my case against the party, for breaching its contract with me by failing to mount a proper investigation and by passing false information about me to the newspapers, will return to court in a week.
The hearing at 2pm on November 24 will take place by telephone – but space is being made available at Bristol Civil Justice Centre for interested members of the public to attend and hear the verdict.
This hearing may take an unexpected path as the Equality and Human Rights Commission published its own report on the way Labour has handled accusations of anti-Semitism since the trial.
I think some of that report should have been included as evidence. I am concerned that the Labour leadership postponed its publication until after the trial took place – possibly in the belief that the verdict would be announced on the same day.
It wasn’t. I hope to bring the judge’s attention to Chapter Six of the report, which gives details of serious failures of the Labour complaint investigation process, and to another part that is pertinent to my case.
I also submitted a request for information to the EHRC, about whether it considered my own case. The organisation has promised to respond before the hearing on November 24.
(This means it will have replied within two weeks of receiving the request. Contrast that with Labour’s response when I sent the party a Subject Access Request: it took the party two years and two months to deliver only a partial response.)
If the verdict goes in my favour, then doubt will be cast on the relevance of Labour’s decision today. And I expect the verdict to go in my favour.
Source: Anti-Semitism: Labour ruling body to meet over Jeremy Corbyn suspension – BBC News
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Adam Wagner, who acted for the Campaign Against Antisemitism in Labour’s referral to the Equality and Human Rights Commission, was asked whether Bolton’s post could be considered antisemitic under the EHRC report.
The human rights barrister tweeted in response: “There is nothing – it’s not antisemitic. Certainly doesn’t fall within the IHRA definition. On what is quoted in the JC article, there is nothing there – nothing.”
https://labourlist.org/2020/11/labour-looking-into-complaint-against-new-nec-member-gemma-bolton/
I haven’t actually addressed the Gemma Bolton case but this is indeed interesting.
Trouble is, if Adam Wagner acted for the CAA, then he is seriously compromised no matter what he said.
This lot of crooked MPs has that’s whot stammer the spammer and his blairites are no labour runs through them Blair done a good job of taking the party so far right it can’t find it’s way back has the blairites won’t let it but justice from this party with that man incharge will be hard to come bye just hope you make. It through the crap stammer the spammer has piled up and his co conspiriters
I should have become involved in Politics at an early age. Full of admiration for your fight.
Thank you! As for wishing you got involved when you were younger – I wish I had, too!
Corbyn reinstated:-
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-54976558
This aged fast, didn’t it?